Stay TrueNew · Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography
Stay True
2022 · 208 pages · Nonfiction
54
New
★ 3.98 on Goodreads · 54K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Memoir) winner (2023) and 1 more win. On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.98★ from 54K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
54Must-Read Score
- Readers29 out of 100 · counts 40%+13
- Critics92 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+33
- Bestseller12 out of 100 · counts 14%+2
- Buzz37 out of 100 · counts 15%+6
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #79 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #67 of the 219 new books we rank
- #408 of the 1,404 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (Memoir) winner (2023)
- NBCC Award (Memoir) winner (2022)
Shortlisted
- Goodreads Choice (memoir autobiography) finalist (2022)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
True story, Moving
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